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Employees of Commerce and Jackson County will get a four-day weekend for Memorial Day, thanks to the Great Recession. In addition to being closed Monday for Memorial Day, both governments will hold furlough days Friday, May 28, closing all but emergency departments. Employees will be paid for Memorial Day, but not for the furlough days, which ...
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Upwards of 700 local high school students received their diplomas over the past week in the schools in Jackson County, bringing a sense of pride to their families in the process, and probably more than a few sighs of relief. They leave the protective environs of secondary education at a perilous time. A weak economy means fewer jobs are ...
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All things considered, a Macon woman who allegedly assaulted her boyfriend, paraded naked in front of an investigating officer and mooned unknown persons from the back of a police car got off lightly. Sandra T. Parham, 47, of 444 Forest Hill Road, Macon, was only charged with simple battery. According to the officer’s account, he was summoned ...
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If the former owner of the Harmony Grove Grille comes back to town, the Commerce Police Department would like to see him. Police would like to serve a warrant the city took out on Hal Walsh last week for bouncing a check for more than $1,100 for a utility payment on the restaurant. That amounts to a felony if he’s convicted. The city closed ...
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An Alabama developer will present a proposal to the Commerce Planning Commission Monday night to rezone 19.5 acres so he can build approximately 50 apartment units for senior citizens. Phil Ellen, president of Paladin Inc., Albertville, plans to buy the State Street tract from Daniel Wilson and Chad Black. He has asked the city to rezone the ...
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A Commerce woman is likely having second thoughts about a friendship with another local woman. The woman came by the police department and reported that she’d been arrested May 13 in Oconee County on a city failure to appear warrant for two traffic citations she’d failed to resolve. According to the victim, an “ex-friend” had used her ...
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Citizens angered by the federal bailout of General Motors and various financial institutions should love this. The taxpayers are also legally on the hook for virtually all of the costs of the cleanup of the massive (an yet unrestrained) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To its credit, BP has said it will pay for the cost of the cleanup, but ...
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A 10-year-old Commerce boy was taken to Athens Regional Medical Center Thursday night after the bicycle he was riding was hit by a car on Carson Street. According to the accident report filed by the Commerce Police Department, Jonathan Michael Fox, 275 Orchard Circle, was struck by a 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier at the intersection of Carson and ...
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A 10-year-old Commerce boy was taken to Athens Regional Medical Center Thursday night after the bicycle he was riding was hit by a car on Carson Street. According to the accident report filed by the Commerce Police Department, Jonathan Michael Fox, 275 Orchard Circle, was struck by a 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier at the intersection of Carson and ...
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